EditorialEmancipation Proclamation. The executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. It proclaimed the freedom of the nation's slaves. Emancipation Proclamation. [A reprint.]. Messages, etc...
EditorialShapés. The Council of Four, [Lhasa]. Full-length standing portrait. The caption in Tibet and Lhasa reads: 'These officials may be described as the Executive Council of four...Their names, from left to right, are Utak, Sechung, Tsarong, and a Trung-Y...
EditorialAlthough Magna Carta was often invoked in an unsophisticated and anachronistic manner, it became a prominent symbol of liberty for early nineteenth-century radicals. They saw Magna Carta as the basis of an ancient constitution that was under threat fr...
EditorialAlthough Magna Carta was often invoked in an unsophisticated and anachronistic manner, it became a prominent symbol of liberty for early nineteenth-century radicals. They saw Magna Carta as the basis of an ancient constitution that was under threat fr...
EditorialHelmet Mask, before 1880, Cameroon, Grassfields region, Bamum kingdom, Wood, copper, glass beads, raffia, cowrie shells, H. 26 x W. 14 x D. 10 3/4 in. (66 x 35.6 x 27.3 cm), Beads-Sculpture, In the socially and politically stratified polities of the Gr...
EditorialTHE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 1889: Hon. J.G. Amhurst, Hon. H. O'Grady Lefroy, Hon. John Forrest, C.M.G., Hon. J.A. Wright, Sir James Lee-Steere, K.C.M.G., Sir Malcolm Fraser, K.C.M.G., The Governor, Sir Frederick Napier Broome, K.C.M.G.,...
EditorialGENERAL BURNSIDE, He was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted successful campaigns in...
EditorialThe Committee of Public Safety, created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror (1793-94). Engraving, 19th century.
EditorialPedro Velez (1787-1848). Mexican politician and lawyer. He was also head of Governing Board of Mexico (also known as Executive Triumvirate) in 1829. Colored engraving.
EditorialPedro Velez (1787-1848). Mexican politician and lawyer. He was also head of Governing Board of Mexico (also known as Executive Triumvirate) in 1829. Engraving.
EditorialCeski Brod State farm has 6.500 hectars of land made up of former private holdings,and 1.500 farm workers. Meeting of the executive committee.
EditorialHungarian Prime minister Hegedues (right)with the President of the Hungarian Republic Isztvan Dobi, during a meeting of the Peoples'Front executive in spring 1956.
EditorialHungarian Revolution 1956: Matyas Rakosi, First Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party, during a meeting of Peoples'Front executive. After his fall from power in the spring of 1956, he went into exile in the Soviet Union. Rakosi died in Moscow in 1...
EditorialThe machine tool factory of Slowenski Brod, where self-administration by the workers was first introduced in Yugoslavia.Ivo Besut,president of the executive committee visits director Mirko Malic,a former tolsmith, in his office.